Heya! Though I already have a WIP posted here (Memoir of Smoke and Mirrors), I’m thinking of doing another one. I actually tend to be more productive multitasking this kind of thing. I have a few ideas in mind but I plan to go with only one right now. Titles are tentative because thinking about titles is hard AF.
LF: Wild Hunt Leader
Summary:
You’re one of the few individuals born with Glamour Cognitive Dysfunction, a rare condition wherein the person (you, in this case) cannot process magical stimuli normally, causing visual and auditory hallucinations. You’ve been dealing with this for as long as you can remember, so you’re not really surprised when that face on the wall starts talking to you every time you go to the hospital lobby. Neither do you blink an eye when the sky turns green nor pay attention to the hellhound that keeps on following you around. After all, they’re all in your head. Right?
Well, that’s what you think until your brother points that dog out to you—and suddenly you realize who’s actually emptying out the fridge.
Things get weirder when a horned, red-haired man wearing a suit and animal-head epaulets on a cape appears and tells you you’re the lost leader of the Wild Hunt. What’s more, he tells you he needs you to come lead the Four Horsemen in a search for Lucifer who’s also gone missing, before Hell falls into anarchy as demons revolt and start the Apocalypse.
You probably shouldn’t have kept the hellhound but you can’t help it! It’s such a good boy!
Settings:
neoLunerys, or Lune as its denizens call it, is a host to humans and Supernaturals both. Supernaturals have always occupied the same world as the humans although they tend to stick to the shadows.
It wasn’t always like that however. Early Pagan religions, urban legends, and myths were sprinkled with truth thought to be fictional over time. The Supernaturals originated from another world though and would visit Lune for trade, friendship, and other sorts of diplomacy. It all changed when the Eldritch Conquerors came to the Supernaturals’ world. Fearing the same drastic fate would happen to Lune, the Supernaturals retreated from this world, closed all the gates, sealed all the leylines, and left only a few of their kind to guard these places. Soon enough, the existence of the Supernaturals was buried from human living memory.
Lune shared the same timeline as our Earth until the turn of the twenty-first century. It was then that the Great Wipeout occurs, the moon’s devastation the cataclysm of a series of destructive natural events that forever changed the world as humans knew it. One of them was the destruction of seals and wards around gates and leylines, and the gap between worlds was bridged once again. Supernaturals began crossing over but they were different. Darker. More dangerous.
Not long after that, a war between the two races broke out and humans were forced to introduce the Transhumans, enhanced individuals made to battle against the other side. The war ended shortly thereafter, both sides suffering major losses. Treaties were signed and Domes with controlled atmospheric conditions were built by both parties to serve as safe havens against the harsh place the surface of the world had become. That was approximately four hundred years ago.
neoLunerys has a science fantasy genre, with urban fantasy and sci-fi subs. Also, even Supernatural races have a hierarchy and this story will focus on demons, one of the top dogs.
If you’re interested to learn more about this world, please do check out neoLunerys here: Worldbuilding Bible The story is going to involve the Supernatural’s origin world a bit too, if you wanna read a little bit of it! It’s named Teijran.
Things in mind the PC can do for now:
• Name your hellhound
• Be a democratic leader or be a tyrant
• Look for clues regarding archprince Lucifer’s whereabouts
• Start the Apocalypse, decide how to do that, or postpone it
• 5 possible ROs
• Work on your relationship with your brother, find out where he gets the money for your treatment and decide what you’ll do about it
Glitch in The Matrix
Summary:
Trouble’s brewing in Cymeia—but then again, when is it not?
You’re an honest worker by day, a rebel hacker by night and right now, the Underground is alive with whisperings about The Glitch, the powerful guard dog of the GovNet, gaining sentience. It’s starting to threaten (or warn?) Cymeians—the hackers determined to breach GovNet’s firewalls, of all people—with incomprehensible flashes of images that bring nothing but terror, or so the others say. One thing is clear: whatever those images might be, Xratos, Inc. is definitely involved.
And then you get to experience it for yourself and notice something they don’t say in the rumors: The Glitch seems more sentient than it lets on. Is it a self-learning AI like everybody thinks it is? Or is it something else?
One top of that, someone contacts Cymeia, someone from the Outside. After countless generations of radio silence, Cymeia finally establishes contact with a place called Thawellane, humanity’s other half.
Settings:
Pruentia is a land where Gods and humans once coexisted, until the Dark Ones fell from the sky and annihilated the Gods. As a last form of protection against the Dark Ones, they bestowed their powers to mankind, giving them the ability to do extraordinary feats. With this farewell gift, the Gods hoped to give humanity a fighting chance.
The war was a Pyrrhic victory for the Dark Ones, giving men time to prepare. However, instead of waging another war, the Dark Ones retreated to the fallen capital, protecting themselves with advanced alien technology and EMP-like waves that discouraged any and all forms of sneaking in. Unfortunately, the remaining numbers of mankind were split into two: one to the east and the other to the west, and once the barrier around no man’s land was activated, communication between the two became impossible.
This story takes place countless generations after the fall of the Gods, in a continent named Pruentia—specifically in Cymeia, a post apocalyptic society located on the west side by the coast. This society has a cyberpunk and neonpunk theme to it. I was playing around with punk themes when I began worldbuilding Pruentia for one of my creative writing subjects. While Thawellane has a utopian solarpunk theme going on, Cymeia is on the opposite end of the spectrum.
If you’re interested to learn more about this world, please do check out Pruentia here: Worldbuilding Bible There’s a summary of the main storyline I’m tackling for said CW class, as well as an in-depth bible for it.
Things in mind the PC can do for now:
• Choose from six different jobs or be a full-time hacker instead. Each will affect the narrative of the story
• Find out the meaning behind The Glitch’s messages
• Befriend the Glitch, make enemies with it, or be indifferent
• Fight for the people or double cross them as a mole
• Expose Xratos, Inc. or benefit from their activities
• Help establish good relations with Thawellane or ruin it before it deepens
• 3 possible ROs
The Angel Extractor
Summary:
You’re an Extractor, someone tasked to retrieve young angels who accidentally “fall” to Lune. Unbelievable as it might be, it happens far more often than the winged ones like to admit out loud—you having a job attests to it. Search for an angel, catch them, bring them to the nearest Supernatural embassy, and done! You get paid for something so easy—most of the time. Aside from the occasional difficult angel who decides they like being on Lune than on Teijran, their homeworld, life’s pretty good.
Until your angels end up dead or dying before you get to them. Well, that surely makes life difficult, doesn’t it? Despite the Supernatural Peace Accords, haters and bigots still exist and now you have an extra job to hunt down this hunter. In a race against time with angel lives on the line, will you manage to outwit this hunter and catch them? Or will more angels fall to their deadly traps?
Settings:
This story takes place in neoLunerys, too, but focusing on the other side: the angels. I also want to delve into Lune’s urban lit aspect, and maybe PC will be desperate enough to go check out the Underground for more clues and whatnot. Lune has a lot of niches and microcosms, and the tone for this story is definitely going to be different than the first story mentioned above.
Things in mind the PC can do for now:
• Choose from seven different Supernatural species and three human races. Each will affect the narrative of the story
• Decide how you’ll approach this hunt. Are you charming and friendly? Stoic and intimidating? Silent and sneaky? The choice is yours
• Will you seek help from the law, go Underground, or do this solo?
• Find out the reason why the angels are dying and who’s killing them
• ROs? Yes, there will be
Oh, and if you have time, please check out my WIP so you get an idea about my writing style too. Thanks for reading!
- Wild Hunt
- Glitch in The Matrix
- Angel Extractor
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